The Tilt-Shift Photography Technique is one that has been very popular in contemporary art. It mimics the look of a Tilt-shift lens, which costs upwards of $1500 and is used for Architectural photography to make sure the lines of a building are parallel (which is close to impossible to do with a regular camera lens). We will be looking at examples of tilt shift photography and you will be doing your own faking of tilt shift photography in Photoshop using the following tools: Duplicate Layer, Tilt Shift Lens Blur, Saturation, and Contrast.

For the Do- Now, open up the following tutorial on Tilt Shift Photography Drag the image from the top of the tutorial into Photoshop CS6.Have the tutorial open on the right hand side and the image in Photoshop on the left hand side of your screen, like below.

We will be working on the tutorial together, then you will be doing the technique on three of your best birds eye view pictures from the block day. When you are done, you will be placing them within the three photo template in the Tilt- Shift folder on the shared drive.

Graded on the following (100 points total)1. Photos used were using the birds eye view technique of shooting from above (20 points each photo)2. Time on task (10 points)3. Gradual blur (10 points)4. Effective use of the contrast and saturation tools for the illusion (10 points) 5. Good craftsmanship- no smudges/ scratches/ thumbprints on photo/ resized photos (10 points)

If you finish before the end of class, start work on three of your best composed photographs for the HDR technique. You will also put them on a three photo template in the shared drive under the HDR folder in Second semester.For a refresher on how to do the HDR Technique-Go to Photoshop CS6File > Automate > Merge to HDR ProChoose five of the exposures of a composition (-1, -.5, 0, +.5, +1)Press okay- then a screen with a box will come up with presets and ways to adjust your imageWhen you are happy with how it looks, be sure to merge the layers and save as a jpeg.

Checking for understanding- you must work independently on this project, as I want to be sure everyone is capable of doing the following before we move on.Open in Photoshop your photograph that you did on the element of LINE from last week.Resize to 4" x 6" with 300 resolution. Change the brightness and contrast to where it looks good.Save as lastname.firstname.line Save as a jpegDo not discard the original photograph!I will be walking around and checking your progress. Please have your photo open in Photoshop and image size showing when I come to see you.

If you finish early, you may continue to work independently on the photography career research project.

1. Why did the advertising agency want to use the photograph?2. What would you have done in that situation, if an agency wanted to use your photograph?3. Did you think the photograph in the story was worth that amount of money?

Write a creative short story in your notebook about the photograph above. The story should be at least two paragraphs long, and include who, what, where, and when. Look at clues within the photograph regarding who the girl may be, why the photographer took this picture, and where she was when the photograph was taken.